The motive power of democracy is love.
HENRI BERGSONWhen it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories.
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A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
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Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
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Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.
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Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.
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The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it.
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I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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